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PayPal has always been a target for cybercriminals in fake campaigns to steal money from users. Sometimes PayPal fake emails or phishing links trick users to login with their financial details. To get rid of such fake sites, PayPal has joined forces with OpenDNS, an IT security company that keeps an eye on suspicious domain name registrations. As a […]
Customers of Standard Chartered Bank, Pakistan were recently left stunned after they received transaction alerts via email and SMS. They were informed about withdrawals of Rs.50, 000 ($500) cash from their bank accounts. What was shocking was the fact that no such action had been taken from their side. Some of the customers didn’t even […]
An email, which appears to be sent from eBay, informs that due to the inaccuracy of your credit card information, your account has been suspended. The user is asked to click on a link titled “Confirm Your Registration” to eliminate suspension. However, eBay is not the real sender of this email and in reality it […]
Remote Control Virus was used by the Hacker to Penetrate into Computer Systems and issue death threats to users. On Wednesday, the 32 year-old Yusuke Katayama, a Japanese hacker, was sentenced to 8 years in prison for using his computer skills to compromise the computer systems of innocent people and issuing death threats. Katayama is […]
The CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum informed on January 21 that the very popular and well-known mobile application has a web client that can be used from Google Chrome which will enable users to retrieve all the conversations and messages from the mobile device. Banking Trojan delivered in Brazil via Fake WhatsApp for web: Attackers […]
Originally this Russian website was designed for purely non-controversial spear-fishing activities, but now its log-in page has been compromised and displays a phishing page. The agenda of this campaign is to steal login details of Outlook Web App. Read More: Your Office Document may be Vulnerable to Malware: Warns Microsoft The Scam: According to security researchers […]
An Australian citizen Scott Robert Hansen, 37, was sentenced to one year in prison for keeping obscene conversations with children on the internet. Hansen was caught by Sweetie, a ten-year-old Filipino virtual girl. Sweetie is created and operated by the Dutch rights group (Terre des Hommes TDH) staff from Amsterdam, Holland. The NGO used cameras and computers to […]
A Texas man and an alleged member of the famous Anonymous hacktivist group, may face prison up to 440 years in the latest second superseding indictment of cyber assaults charges against him that includes hacking attempts against county, school, and newspaper organizations, says the latest release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Fidel Salinas, […]
Famous South Korean Search Portal NAVER Hacked, 25 Million accounts Hacked Using Stolen Data. A hacker going with the handle of ‘Seo’ has been arrested for breaching in to the accounts of 25 million people on NAVER, South Korea’s largest Web portal. According to Korea Herald, the hacker bought private information of 25 million people […]
For temporary abandoning the services of the host that is connected to some internet, the most widely used and favorite method that is employed by hackers is the “Distributed Denial of Services DDoS”. Almost all the big websites till date have fall victim to this attack at different times. For the purpose of boosting these […]
JERUSALEM: Two Israeli combat pilots were jailed for five days and 12 others were disciplined for storing operational maps on their smartphones, Israeli Army Radio reported on Wednesday. Israeli military authorities discovered the security breach after one of the pilots reported he had lost his cellphone and that it contained sensitive data. It was recovered, […]
Brazil: An online advert on South America’s largest online shopping website (MercadoLivre.com) has put humanity to shame offering “blacks for sale for one Brazilian real” ($0.42). The ad was featuring a photo image of two black kids, suggesting that sold black children can “serve as carpenters, masons, cooks, security guards, nightclub bouncers, janitors, garbage collectors, […]
For all those folks who log into dating sites in order to ‘get a sexy lady’ and blindly trust whoever the found online. Here is a news for you all. Toronto-based Doriana Silva is suing an online dating site Ashley Madison (www.ashleymadison.com) for some serious injuries she sustained during her job. Silva claims that while working at the […]
We have heard about increase in rate of divorces due to social networking website Facebook but witnessing a horrific crime such as setting an innocent girl on fire for accepting a friend request from another man has hit the news for the first time. In the Indian city of Allahabad, a 22-year-old female University student was […]
During recent times, social media has by some distance defeated ordinary ways of trading. This has indeed directed many people towards social media to get their business moving. This up thrust has increased competition at the rate of knots and many people are now looking for shortcuts to get their products or services marketed on […]
The watch foundation of internet has made a statement that many online business networks have been hacked by different hackers and the servers of these businesses have been utilized to host images that relate to sexual abuse of child or child pornography. The charity made a statement that the legal websites that are running pornographic […]
FreedomWeb is a renowned Irish concern which provides web hosting services for the purpose of Tor hidden services which reached via the Tor encrypted or anonymised network has been shut down. The reason behind the shutdown of the network is that the owner of this company Eric Eoin Marques has been arrested because of allegations of […]
Derby University of mathematics and computing is helping the world to fight from cyber crime in most unusual way. Have you ever wondered how cyber crimes are plotted? Well, you might think of it in a simple way of how a robbery is conducted i.e. on some paper or by discussion with some more robbers. […]
In the state of Punjab, India, 170 cyber-crime complaints have been made in total and the state has topped the chart of such crimes. The latest complaint was made by a local resident man who uses Facebook and the compliant was his son and wife is threatening him through this online platform. The platform has […]
A Pakistani man identified as Imran Elahi has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Brooklyn federal court for participating and supporting a multimillion-dollar ATM heists targeting debit card processors. Reuters reports that Imran admitted his role of dispersing debit card numbers to criminals who further cashed out around $9-million (€6.9-million) heist against RBS WorldPay in 2009. The effected MasterCard […]
The “sophisticated” malware for Android has been “unleashed”. Identified by the company specializes in cyber security Kaspersky, the Trojan “Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a” is a threat virtually impossible to be eliminated. The virus is very dangerous both for those who are infected and for the contacts of that affected person. The malware installs itself not only on the device itself but can send malicious files to […]